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Allan Nairn is an award-winning U.S. investigative journalist who became well-known when he was imprisoned by the Indonesian military while reporting in East Timor. His writings have focused on U.S. foreign policy in such countries as Haiti, Guatemala, Indonesia, and East Timor. Nairn was born in Mobile, Alabama to a Puerto Rican mother. In high school, he got a job with consumer activist Ralph Nader, working for him for six years.

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Allan Nairn believes people can shake up the world if they want, and now is the time.

We need real democracy, not the Davos talking shop.

Neo-liberal ideas are dead, worker control is the solution.

Allan Nairn reports on the South-East Asian Islamist groups promises to target Israel-affiliated facilities in the region.

Obama’s rules keep torture intact, and could even accord with an increase in US-sponsored torture worldwide.